Journal article
Sex differences in neuro(auto)immunity and chronic sciatic nerve pain
Abstract
Chronic pain occurs with greater frequency in women, with a parallel sexually dimorphic trend reported in sufferers of many autoimmune diseases. There is a need to continue examining neuro-immune-endocrine crosstalk in the context of sexual dimorphisms in chronic pain. Several phenomena in particular need to be further explored. In patients, autoantibodies to neural antigens have been associated with sensory pathway hyper-excitability, and the …
Authors
Linher-Melville K; Shah A; Singh G
Journal
Biology of Sex Differences, Vol. 11, No. 1,
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
December 2020
DOI
10.1186/s13293-020-00339-y
ISSN
2042-6410